The common school bus rider would think of the journey from school to home through the desert with all windows down and grumpy sweaty kids, to be dreadful. No Further Shall This Be!! ..At least not with my bus. Thursday April 15, 2010. The bus is fairly open. Not all seats are full of two occupants. I, sitting in front of Rachel and AJ in the middleish section on the bus. As the door squeeks closed and the bus departs, the student talk to one another and share stories of their day and laugh like animals. I, including myself in Rachel's conversation and speaking to another friend sitting across from me, start to notice the radio station that was nothing but background music on the bus. I look at rachel because this song is..familiar to thine ears. It was Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall. Ohhhh man I flipped a lid when I knew the song. Apparently everyone else did. Rachel was the first to yell (in a man voice) "TURN IT UP" The bus driver did so.
So Let me paint this scene for you again: This is a bus full of about maybe..28 students after a long hot day in Phoenix, Arizona. This song, that generates from Students in school...It was just pure matramoney. And greatly all of the students on my bus are the kind of people that they do whatever, whenever, with a laugh. Right when the ever so famous part in the song comes on, everyone..I mean, EVERYONE from me-back shouted "Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone" A great and mighty chuckle was announced. All of the students that sit alone look back and start to laugh. Rachel and I really get into it with any word we know, we are now singing mightily with some hand motions of dance moves. It was remarkable I must say.
The next song on was Long Train Runnin' by The Doobie Brothers. Now I am not saying that I know the entire song, but what I know, I know. Except for when I am helpless on words so all that comes out of my mouth is sounds that are similar to those of the real lyrics. The actual words to the part of Long Train Runnin go-Without love. I hear'Talkin aout love. Therefore 'talkin about love' is whats going down!! So anyways a lot of students were just astonished about about this particular radio station with these familiar hits. I belt it with my preacher voice Talkin about loooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOve! And buses come to complete stops, the resistance lasts for a while. Being in a sporatic mood I jump up in the isle and start juming slightly a lot while moving my hands in a circular position. So I was rapidly bouncing to the very front of the bus, while singing 'Loooooooooooooooooove', and moving my arms in circular postitions. I am not sure if writing this down makes sense but if anyone would like to see a demonstration, I will gladly abide.
Most bus experiences are not appealing. But for the party on wheels I take home everyday, I enjoy every second.
You seem to make a party out of everything you do, everywhere you go, and with everyone you are with. Who knew you could get 28 kids on a high school bus singing and dancing??!
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